XeroxCool

@XeroxCool@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come Netflix removed the N from their shows, kind of make it seem like they borrow all the stuff? I usually use it for a segway into other shows/movies not made by them?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s Dean Kamen’s fault

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or that the site owners aren’t just two bit grifters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK Tempur Mattresses fail quickly and the warranty is fake⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We picked a Sleep Number because we have different firmness preferences and because I knew 3 couples at the time with a bit over 10 years of use at the time. The only complaint was one person has to air up every few weeks. It’s set to 100 and probably sags to 90 lol.

  That being said, Lemmy, get the pitchforks. I wasn’t able to get a basic pump/controller, only the wifi-enabled “smart” pump. Paid $50 extra for a Bluetooth remote to not use their app. I don’t have it on the network. If the pump dies, fuck 'em. I’ll put a Schrader valve on the tube and get the tire inflator. If an RV thread is correct that 100 is 0.6psi and if my fuzzy math is correct, half a queen is the same total amount of air as a typical car tire. ~30x the volume but 1/50th the pressure

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨if all communication electronics died on New Year's day, how long would it take for other time zones to notice⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you saying they’re in sync? And the wavelength is that reliable?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What an unprocessed photo looks like⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, especially because I’m a frequent sky-looker but have to prepare any ride-along that all we’re going to see by eye is pale fuzzy blobs. All my camera is going to show you tonight is pale sprindly clouds. I think it’s neat as hell I can use some $150 binoculars to find interstellar objects, but many people are bored by the lack of Hubble-quality sights on tap. Like… Yes, and then sent a telescope to space in order to get those images.

  That being said, I once had the opportunity to see the Orion nebula through a ~30" reflector at an Observatory, and damn. I got to eyeball about what my camera can do in a single frame with perfect tracking and settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As someone discovering their IQ might be room temperature, I forgot we were talking about room temperature. Maybe there’s arctic mushrooms to back me up? Or an ice fishing bathroom with the door left open

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How come laptops or pc's don't have a "webcam" facing both ways instead of just the user?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, some commenters are just being rude. It’s not a ridiculous question and this is the community for it, even if it was, isn’t it? It’s no real stretch of the imagination to wonder why if phones have great cameras and tablets have good cameras, why don’t laptops offer anything close? I agree, the bulk of the laptop makes it awkward and the demand is low when “everyone” in the primary markets already have a camera phone in their pocket

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Room temperature IQ is a far bigger insult in Europe than America.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless it’s -40

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much earth would compress and expand if all of it was 50°C⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, that would be one way to make it noticeable. If all land/sea floor lifted, gradually, 1.2km into the air, we wouldn’t see it. I also Flubbed the per-km increase of the ruler and edited it to correct the increase down to 20cm per km. So as far as our ability to tell things are 0.02% further, no mere mortal would recognize it. But with a lap band around the Earth, we’d definitely notice the new halo floating above us instead of being a tripping hazard.

  That reminds me of a fun fact about how the increase in circumference does not care what your starting values are. If you wanted to wrap a rope around a soccer ball, then make the rope lift 1m above the surface of the ball all around, you’d do probably do the pid math like (pid2)-(pi*d1) :

  3.140.022m=0.069m of rope around the ball
  3.14(0.022+1+1)=6.349m of rope to float 1m above the ball
  6.349-0.069=6.28m of extra rope

  Then do it for the planet.

  3.1440,000,000m=125,600,000. 00m of rope around the planet
  3.14(40,000,000+1+1)=125,600,006.28m of rope to float 1m above the ground 125,600,006.28-125, 600,000= 6.28m of extra rope.

  1m above, or 2m greater diameter, can just be fed directly into pid as derived from pi(d2-d1) since we know it’s a basic request to lift it 1m

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How much earth would compress and expand if all of it was 50°C⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  67% of the Earth’s mass is comprised of silicates in the mantle. Solid silicates have very low thermal coefficients of expansion, meaning they change volume very little in comparison to other compounds. So if the mantle was cooled and solidified to 0, then heated to 50, it’d have very little effect. It’d grow something like 0.02% in volume.

  Being that the mantle is generally liquid, you’ll see a much larger effect from the initial cooling. But how much? I don’t know. Liquid rock isn’t present in mere mortal online calculators and my ability to dive into the material properties and manually calculate it is long gone from my head.

  But “much” larger may not be significant to the human experience, given that 0.02% would be imperceptible as a baseline. If you had a 1km long solid silicon ruler, heating it from 0 to 50C would make it just 20m longer. A circumferential ruler reaching around the Earth along the equator would go from ~40,000km to 40,008km.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I take it the Switch/S2 has many non-Nintendo games shared with other consoles? Hard to search through 4,000 titles on Wikipedia to find them at random, but I did see they had one Assassin’s Creed (Odyssey) at the game’s launch. I never really had Nintendo systems and just associate them with exclusive Nintendo games.

  I’m choosing to believe the Steam Machine will do more of the same for PC games. Maybe it won’t force optimization at launch, but I hope it maintains itself as a benchmark for builds and provides demand for optimization to a certain spec.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  OK, so you don’t have fossil-fuel-free solutions, either, and you don’t have a reasonable plan to handle night time energy needs. You specifically said that utilizing fossil fuels at all was an issue, including for production of renewable, with the claim about not being able to source a turbine without fossil fuel use. It sounds like you don’t understand that “night” happens during normal human waking hours, that there are actual activities and demand for energy specifically at night, and that there is no direct path to a fossil-fuel-free energy solution. I have no idea how subsidizing alternates erases fossil fuels for your idea.

  Its the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere and I have 8.5 hours of daylight today. That’s about 4 hours of decent solar production without clouds, since the sun is so low. I guess I’ll just try sleeping, without electric heat (since CNG is a fossil and solar is dormant), for 14 hours tonight from dusk to dawn (5pm-7am). Wait, solar panels are still using fossil fuels for production, so those are out. Is a wood stove OK? It’s renewable, but it’s a major CO2 burden, much worse than CNG. Can’t mine lithium or nuclear material with the existing industry, all runs on petroleum. I’m not sure if life is worth living, as every waking hour has been spent at work, using the small time frame to try to support myself financially.

  This also means no activity can occur at night. No manufacturing? Triple the facility sizes to allow the “night time” morning shift and the “night time” late night shift to operate with the daytime shift. Can’t go anywhere, can’t entertain myself, can’t eat, can’t enjoy anything other than lying in the dark, waiting for the sun to come back. That’s weird, putting all the overnight demand in the daytime is causing brownouts because we couldn’t triple our energy production. But hey, the burden is being shared and we’re all miserable for 5 straight months. But the summer will be rad with only demanding 8 hours of dormancy.

  Look at the project. It’s not a continuous production of CO2. It says this one contains 2,000 tonnes of CO2 and produces 200MWh/day. A CNG power plant is somewhere in the range of 0.5kg CO2/kWh. That’s 10,000kg CO2 from CNG for 20MWh, or 10 tonnes. In just 200 days, a CNG plant of the same capacity will produce as much CO2 as this entire facility contains.

  Bashing innovative projects like this for being anything less than a time machine to go pure nuclear actively hurts progress. Is that your goal? To maintain the status quo?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s your plan that doesn’t utilize the existing fossil fuel industry at all to go cold turkey on oil and full throttle on renewable?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grid-Scale Bubble Batteries Will Soon Be Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, per the article, the danger zone in a burst is only claimed to be 70m until cleared and the CO2 release still pales in comparison to a regular coal plant - “equivalent to 15 round trips between New York and London on a Boeing 777”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: The Lethal Danger Of Combining Welding And Brake Cleaner⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point of brake cleaner is that it’s not supposed to leave a residue. It’s not actually meant to be a general parts degreaser, but rather a braking surface cleaner. But being able to remove oils without additional water has made it the WD40 of mechanical cleaners. Rarely the right product , but often right enough.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what happens when you cut something?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That looks like my cheddar! That’s why, without the aid of an industrial shearing rig, I have to hold the knife at about 15 degrees off vertical, cutting edge towards the block. The cut goes straight down. I’ve accepted the superiority of using a small santoku knife and having to hand wash. I really should get a wire slicer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what happens when you cut something?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cut paper makes a ton of dust and fiber. Ever empty out a shredder? It’s a significant maintenance issue for print shops

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what happens when you cut something?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is pretty much what I was going to say. You always lose material, but the amount lost varies drastically based on the method. Even when using a knife or shears in a purely straight motion (no sawing or sliding), the material has to deform to make room for the cutting device. It may rip apart, it may bulge into itself, it may crumble, it may do it all. Try cutting a thin slice off a nice block of cheese and you’ll see nearly all the deformation go to the slice, while the knife will be coated in cheese

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My roku has an internal rechargeable battery and lasts months. But what’s infuriating is I read up further and found it doesn’t actually use my wifi network. It’s direct to the TV. So why wouldn’t it work without internet? Insane.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I didn’t connect my free Roku TV to the new wifi, and suddenly the remote works like shit. Turns out, it’s a wifi remote that would rather not use infrared and the infrared receiver has been slightly blocked this whole time.

  The way to set it up without connecting it to wifi is very hidden. I had to look it up after because I couldn’t figure it out. I fucking hate smart tvs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s why I specified “on this platform”, where the demographic leans towards having been 10-20 years old at the time of the movie release and going into IT/coding after that. But I mean, I was being a little facetious with it.

  skateboards into server room

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get that for people who had his live Shaggy role their entire lives. Scooby was primarily a cartoon for me. But I was surprised and understanding of him potentially being most famous for Shaggy, as he has like 20 credits to his name. Presumably for a lot of voice work

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I dunno, he was in Scream 6 and will be in 7 since apparently they want to keep going with this series. I still see Ghostface masks every year at Halloween. But, sure, I can agree his presence in the movie isn’t as culturally significant.

  On the flipside, Shaggy is an existing character to me that happened to be played by Lillard in later adaptations. He’s not the face of Shaggy to me because Shaggy was a cartoon first.

  But that’s my take.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with Quentin Tarantino?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess he does have many credits as Shaggy. I thought he’d be known for being the main bad guy in Scream. And, on this platform, I thought we’d all go for Hackers. No, just me and u/zerocool?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know about Russian thefts, but US Theives will absolutely go for a Porsche. Not every theft is shipped overseas. Fast, flashy cars are stolen to thrash for a couple days and then wreck them. So, sure, by raw numbers, I’m sure honda and Toyota top the list. That doesn’t mean Porsche is off the list - the stat is higher per capita. I mean, Kias are top of the list in the US Midwest and they are NOT being shipped. Even those are just stolen for joyride. The 3rd category is stripping them for parts. No hotwiring/fob spoofing, no complicated theft. Winch it up on a flatbed faster than the owner can respond.

  Ask any Porsche owner if they’re afraid of theft. I promise, every one of them will say yes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Owners welcomed theft deterrent like that. OnStar is probably the main original US service, found in GM cars. I think Subaru picked them up at some point, but basically all new cars have the option to have manufacturer tracking and app-based vehicle connections for remote start, tracking, service alerts, diagnostic uploads, etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I assumed it’s not a option, so I took the suggestion to mean “physically disable” the device. Modern cars have a number of integrated computers and they rarely serve individual purposes, but there’s a good chance there’s an external antenna near/in a window. Granted, I don’t have any vehicles with cell service, so I could be wrong. I do own a drill though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank them for fulfilling a need… And let them go. Their job is done. The task, complete.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess they could also jump on the opportunity to pitch a pyramid scheme, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s nothing to lose by trying as long as you accept that the worst case scenario is they’re still not part of your life.

  Maintaining relationships is hard. They’re likely minimally social these days as well. Somewhere around your age is where many people suddenly feel lonely. It’s a tough lesson on the concept of “friends of proximity”. That’s usually a negative term, but, quite frankly, I believe all friends are friends of proximity. If you change proximity (new job, differetlnt school, drop a hobby, move, etc), you have to work harder to stay in each other’s orbits. Shortened tangent: this is something I’m at peace with now. Instead of putting asterisks next to everyone that’s a work friend or hobby friend, they’re just friends. I don’t know when that friendship will end, so I focus on enjoying the current relationship.

  The point I’m coming to is that, while I understand this is a unique situation for you, it’s a common general feeling. That will make it tough to rejoin social circles that likely don’t exist anymore. But, if you do manage to meet up, have at it. Enjoy it. Perhaps there are other people in your orbit that can be reevaluated as a friend. Maybe you can find something to do with them, even if it’s just a very basic hangout after work or something. I find many people are hesitant because they also think of these friendships as temporary, but hopefully you can get a feel for options and feedback. I know your post was about old friends, but I’m hoping they’re not your only option.

  And please, please, do not take social media posts as their daily diary. It’s so hard to accept, but every day they’re not posting, they’re just as bored and alone as everyone else scrolling. Social media is the high lights reel. So much of it is projection.